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Veterans Day November 11, 2009 Pass this link on to any
Veterans you may know. Veterans eat free at Applebee’s
on
Nov 11th. They might even let in
Air Force veterans.
The Applebee's in
Albemarle will be honoring our Veterans on this day. http://www.applebees.com/vetsday/#identification My hat is off to all of our Veteran's and those that are still serving our County. Paul - KD4OZI |
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Club
meeting (Oct. 22, 2009) Jeff Orrock from the
National Weather Service (NOAA) from Raleigh was at the College
and gave us an over view of the effects that we may have with
Winter Weather this year.
Jeff was to the point and as usually gave us an excellent
presentation. Jeff also covered the NOAA weather
(Internet) maps and weather warnings that We will say an O.K. turn out 21 folks Stanly County had Brian Simpson (Emergency Manage), John Yow (EMS Manager), Don Little (County Ranger) and Jeremy Callicut (Asst. County Ranger). Stanly County ARC had 11 members and 4 guest another ham attended, I didn’t get his name I think that he was from Randolph County.
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October 24th QRP party at the Oakboro Park went well. The table was scheduled for noon by another group. We felt that we be out without interrupting the invited by 11 am. All went well Antenna set up went well. The day that was select for our event was also a DX contest day. We had lots of heavy signals received but we could make a single contact too many pile up on the frequencies that we heard. A good turn out, a little rain mid morning, weather wise a date that one of us must of ordered. Our Talking Myna bird did say much other then “Where’s William and Where’s John" over and over again?? Does anyone want to by a used Myna Bird?
Attendee's
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| QRP Party October 24th @ Oakboro Park Start Time 8AM to Noon We will need help setting up antenna's for the QRP radio. Will also need a radio 2 meter for Talk-in 147.390 + and will need operators and/or loggers. KD4OZI-Paul |
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Skywarn Training Class We need a good
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Reminder == September 5th and 6th 2009 From: Susan Melvin To: k4zxn@yahoo.com Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 10:53 PM Subject: Shelby Hamfest information Dear NC ARRL Clubs, Please pass this information along to your members. This year our club, in an effort to save money on postage, has decided not to mail brochures. Attached is a PDF with information on the 2009 Shelby Hamfest in Dallas, NC. September 5th and 6th. Tickets can now be purchased via paypal through our website at http://www.shelbyhamfest.org/hamfest.htm We are giving away 14 radios this year and you do not have to be present to win. Thanks for your time and your patronage to our hamfest. We love to see folks from all across NC and look forward to seeing you Labor Day weekend! 73 Susan Melvin K4ZXN Vice President - Shelby Amateur Radio Club http://www.shelbyhamfest.org Susan Melvin K4ZXN District Emergency Coordinator NC ARES AREA 13 http://ncarea13.k4zxn.org 6/08/09 |
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Ladies & Gentlemen, I would like to THANK all persons
who participated in this two day drill. It was amazing
as I was at the Eastern Branch for awhile yesterday to
hear all the stations checking in, and listening to the
net while mobile going to work. It really showed what we
can do when all work together to
accomplish
one goal, which is to provide our citizens of NC backup,
and sometimes primary communications to emergency
management. Special thanks to those who attended many
hours of meetings with emergency management officials
who were planning this drill. Also to those who helped
in getting the very valuable Winlink System setup at the
State EOC, and the Western Branch, and soon to be at the
Eastern Branch, which really came thru.
I hope in the near future to discuss the final
results of the drill, with N4TAB, and others to see if
we need to do anything different, and will provide all
with a final report. I am sure that all Emergency Management officials are very pleased with our performance, and hope all will continue to train, and learn ways to improve our system, with learning which antennas work best, and which portable systems that work best, whether it is VHF/UHF, or HF. Please keep up the good work that all are doing. Thanks 73 |
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Received this email tonight, passing along. I hope that WMIT
will reverse their decision and allow amateur radio
to stay! Susan
___________________________________________________________________________________________________ ARES ® Registered Trademark of ARRL
From:
Jimmy Dean Blair [mailto:k2jb@bellsouth.net]
Dear Ham Radio Community. You may follow this on QRZ - http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?t=206595 We appreciate your assistance. Dean Blair ~ k2jb WCARS President
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Greetings All I think everyone would agree that Field Day 2009 was a great success. We had a great turnout in a beautiful location. I believe we presented a favorable impression of Amateur Radio to the community. There were willing operators for almost the entire 24 hour period. We had some propagation issues and some minor technical problems but nothing that would keep us off the air. As field day coordinator I would like to thank everyone for your cooperation and I want to extend a special thanks to Steve and Ginger for the cookout. I do not remember having an organized meal at Field Day. I think the meal added a focal point to the event. I know I have never seen that many people at field day since I have been attending. I hope everyone had as much fun as I did. 73 Lane KS4PG 6/28/09 _______________________________________________ Members mailing list Members@k4ogb.org http://k4ogb.org/mailman/listinfo/members_k4ogb.org
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K4OGB North Carolina QSO Party
John – K3ON Bill K4VET
Lane KS4PG What a excellent NC QSO party. The turn out was lighter then expected looks like a few expected, (expectee’s) missed because of the bad weather, lots of rain, lots of rain. The food, Stew provided by Lane, using Ed’s (W4KMA) special patented recipe was excellent. The cheese was very good but I missed the wine. Lots of contact made and all that attended had a great time. We used Ed’s, almost new Radio and it was a hit and we were hoping it was a door prize but we were wrong. Ed listed it as a no trade, no sale item. The radio had lots of bells and whistles. Normally they would be lots of knob turning but the new radio appears to use more button pushing, a real neat radio and the folks enjoyed Ed bringing it for our use. Charles our kitchen Manager must have worked as a CEO for a major Air Lines as the food was hot and on time. Hat’s off to Lane for putting this together and for the food, drinks and the excellent facilities for us to meet, a good location in Stanly County. Chopper Up, Bill (KC4TDC) brought his Helicopter that he talks about (a lot) and launched the helicopter in the middle of the floor (now referred to as Pad 11), good results and good demonstration of Bill’s flying ability. Bill appeared to be a little nervous. At the end of his flight Bill was out of breather, the group taught Bill the breath in, breath out method for a longer life. It was really nice meeting the folks that we have not met or seen in a while. Jeff, (KJ4GZE) just got his General ticket and Ginger (KJ4JWU) is our newest ham in Stanly County. It always good to meet old friends and new ones. On the Wednesday ARES/Club net lots of good comments on the QSO party and they would like to see the Club do this event on yearly bases, something to defiantly think about. Before I close special thanks to the baking ladies, Cookies that Robin’s (WA4NLF) mother Ruby made, Blue Berry muffins Don’s (AE4AH) wife Jean provided and special thanks to maker and baker of the pound cake and other assorted items provided by Judy, Lanes (KS4PG) wife. I think that most of us were on the road before the snow started. A note from Lane on our score… Results mailed. We made 99, 2 point contacts and we had 50
multipliers for a total of 9900. We worked both W4NC and W4WS
that gave us 150 bonus points. The total submitted score was Paul – KD4OZI |
JULY NC SECTION NEWS JUNE EARTHQUAKE DRILL A BIG SUCCESS An NC Emergency Management graded NCEM/FEMA exercise was held on June 23 and 24. The exercise assumed all landline and cellular telephone systems were interrupted and communications between involved EOC's and Red Cross offices occurred via Amateur Radio. By all accounts, the exercise was a great success and state and local emergency management agencies were impressed with our capability. More than 80 stations checked-in to the Tarheel Emergency Net during the exercise and both simplex and repeater-based VHF was used between counties participating in the drill. Army MARS Winlink stations provided HF-based email between the Buncombe County EOC, Western Branch EOC in Conover and the State EOC in Raleigh. When emergency management's own email system experienced some very real technical difficulties, MARS Winlink was ready as a backup. Congratulations and thanks to everyone who participated in this drill! FIELD DAY REPORT Thanks to all of you for your Field Day hospitality! I visited 12 of the 52 sites in the NC section, driving 511 miles. Here are some random observations: The Rowan ARS had the local volunteer fire department on hand and several members are also hams. I was happy to meet the new Rowan County EC, Gary, K4GHL. The Tri County ARC in High Point was holding their first Field Day and setup at the High Point Red Cross office, with several new hams participating. I enjoyed visiting with Weldon, W4AJT who was operating from an air conditioned tent at the Greensboro ARC site. Weldon has been a ham since 1930!. The Alamance ARC had access to the county's fire training site. It helps when the county emergency manager is a ham and is participating in field day! The Orange County ARC and the Durham FM Association held a combined field day with some impressive antennas and lots of good food. The CDXA group was operating from W4DXA's QTH and probably won their category. In Concord, the Cabarrus ARC used their club emergency trailer and also had access to a massive crank up tower owned by the county. The Union County club was setup in the beautiful town of Waxhaw and had a visit from a county commissioner. Charlotte's TV14 was on-hand during my visit to the Mecklenburg ARS site and the club got some great press coverage. The Charlotte ARC activated their first class club station at the Salvation Army office. But the most impressive venue was the Smith Chart ARS operation in Raleigh. Since their Field Day was combined with a State Highway Patrol drill, the Smith Chart group had access to the NCSHP tower trailers and command post vehicle. Wow! WINLINK OPERATIONAL AT BRANCH EOC'S Thanks to the leadership of Central Branch AEC Tom Brown, N4TAB, the state EOC and Eastern and Western branch offices are now equipped with HF Winlink. There is also a portable unit for the state's command trailer. This is the culmination of 7 years of work with state emergency management to secure funding, obtain the equipment and complete installations at all three locations. The Winlink system received its most visible test during the Western NC earthquake drill. While there is still some tweaking needed, the new equipment provides excellent backup email capability for the EOC's. MEDIA HITS Congratulations to all of you who helped out with Field Day publicity in the North Carolina section! As mentioned above, the Mecklenburg ARS site had a visit from Charlotte cable's TV14 news channel. The Shelby Club effort was covered in the Shelby Star. Two TV news stories were aired in Wilmington, one on ABC affiliate WWAY-TV and another on WECT. The Cape Fear ARS efforts were covered in "Ham Radio Operators Not Yielding to Future" on fayobserver.com and dailyadvance.com described the Albemarle ARS Field Day operation. The New Bern ARC got coverage in the New Bern Sun Journal. Blueridgenow.com included not only a great article on the Blue Ridge ARC field day, but they also posted some video. The Tar River club made it into RockyMountTelegram.com. Jacksonville's jdnews.com posted a notice about the Carteret County ARS Field Day. Greenville's WNCT covered the Brightleaf ARC Field Day and the Ashe County Field Day was described on mountaintimes.com. NET MANAGER FOR CN STILL NEEDED! We're in serious need of some help with both the early and late sessions of the Carolina's Net. Check-ins, liaison stations, and net control operators are needed, but our most acute need is for someone to serve as net manager. Don't let your CW speed be a barrier. Sending stations will always slow to whatever speed you can copy and I'll bet after a few weeks on the net your CW speed will increase considerably! The CN nets cover both North and South Carolina, so your friends from across the border are also needed. CN-Early meets on 3573 kHz at 7:00pm and CN-Late meets on the same frequency at 10:00pm. UPCOMING EVENTS · July 25: Western Carolina Hamfest, Waynesville · July 25 & 26: APRS Golden Packet Event, Western NC · August 8: Cape Fear Swapfest, Fayetteville · August 18: McGuire Nuclear Drill · Sept 5 & 6: Shelby Hamfest, Dallas JUNE TRAFFIC K4IWW 288, N3BW 191, KI4YV 169, W4DNA 116, KI4ZJI 71, W4TTO 67, NC4VA 57, W4FAL 44, KE4AHC 33, W3HL 33, K8SKX 21, WX4MMM 14. JUNE PSHR W4DNA 390, NC4VA 365, KI4ZJI 180, K4IWW 140, W4FAL 130, KI4YV 100, W4TTO 100, JUNE ARES MEMBERS: 1,824, up 3 from last month.
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Subject: SKYWARN Basic and Advanced Training Class
Salisbury NC
Area-11 Rowan County
I am pleased to announce that after working long and hard
with Kelly Cook, Charlotte Area Skywarn Emergency
Coordinator, Kelly has arranged for a National Weather
Service Greenville/Spartanburg Meteorologist to come to the
Elizabeth H. Dole Red Cross Chapter here in Salisbury NC to
present this training.
Date: 22 Aug 09 Saturday
Time:
10:00 AM until approximately 2:00 PM
Location: 1930 Jake Alexander Blvd.
Elizabeth H. Dole Red Cross Chapter.
Being a licensed Amateur Radio Operator is not required,
there is an 800 number that can be called to report
inclimate weather, so everyone is welcome to attend this
training class.
Refer any questions to Gary Lang,
k4ghl@arrl.net, or Kelly
Cook,
kg4ytr@bellsouth.net
Feel free to pass this information along to anyone who you
feel may be interested, and while advanced registration is
not required, it is requested so we may get a rough
headcount.
Thank you,
Gary Lang
Rowan County NC Amateur Radio Emergency Services (ARES)
Emergency Coordinator
704-237-7142 Cell
SKYWARN™ is a concept developed in the early 1970s that was
intended to promote a cooperative effort between the
National Weather Service and communities. The emphasis of
the effort is often focused on the storm spotter, an
individual who takes a position near their community and
reports wind gusts, hail size, rainfall, and cloud
formations that could signal a developing tornado. Another
part of SKYWARN™ is the receipt and effective distribution
of National Weather Service information.
The organization of spotters and the distribution of warning
information may lies with the National Weather Service or
with an emergency management agency within the community.
This agency could be a police or fire department, or often
is an emergency management/service group (what people might
still think of as civil defense groups). This varies across
the country however, with local national weather service
offices taking the lead in some locations, while emergency
management takes the lead in other areas.
8/10/09 |
| Known as the "Magic Band," 6 meters QSO Party |
10-year-old boy killed by lightningPublished: 6/11/09, 10:05 AM EDT
INDIANAPOLIS
(AP) - Indianapolis police say a 10-year-old boy was killed by
lightning at a campground while he and his father walked to
their car to seek shelter from a thunderstorm. |
| On June 23 & 24 we need to have the net operational starting
at 0700, and maybe going up to midday for the earthquake drill.
There is usually some rag chew QSO's going on 3923 stating
around 0800, if they are already on the frequency, whoever is
the first net control could politely ask them to move so we
could use the
frequency. They have done that in the past for some of our SET's. If
the 75 mtr band starts dropping out then we could go to our
alternate 0f 7232 plus or minus a few kc's. Before we would
change freq's there should be several announcements on 3923 that
we are moving, and the VHF/UHF repeaters. I would also like to
see our net activation times put on the web page. Ron ,I do feel like we need to have the Eastern Branch Active during that time period, as a backup, and to test our own equipment. My work schedule is changing, so I may be available both days in the morning. I will know later this week for sure.
Thanks to all Bernard Nobles WA4MOK |
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Dear NC PIOs: The PR101 training course represents a major leap in the training of ARRL field PIOs. As I shared with you earlier, almost 75% of all ARRL PIOs have had little or no training in PR, media or journalism. As you go through this first version of PR101, you will notice that sections of it appear primitive, amateurish or elementary. Those of us who are on ARRL’s Public Relations Committee cobbled the course together after it was approved by ARRL management but hadn’t been funded. Rather than wait for funding the next fiscal year, we all felt it was best to begin now, and make version 2.0 in 2010 look smoother and more polished. Nevertheless, the information in the inaugural edition is on-target relative to amateur radio PR, and you will find it beneficial. Tim and I aren’t sure if the section budget will permit any PIO who takes PR101 after December 1, 2009 will be reimbursed. We are leaning, however, to make PR101 training a requirement for all NC section PIOs who want to retain their ARRL PIO appointments starting in 2011. Therefore, I encourage you to sign up now for PR101 if you want to be reimbursed for the cost of the training, and to ensure that you will have the training completed by the time it may become mandatory. I expect that many section managers will be making PR101 compulsory for their section PIOs in the near future. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Congratulations again to Randy Ross, KI4ZJI, for completing PR101 along with me. It doesn’t take long, and it will elevate your outlook, approach, professionalism and dealings with the media as they relate to amateur radio. TNX es 73, Bill N2COP 6/3/09 |
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Welcome to the New
Skywarn EC for the
Weather Service Please join me in a welcome aboard to Kelly Cook ( KG4YTR ). Kelly, lives in Gaston County. Kelly was the Assistance Skywarn EC for Greg (WB4HRR). Greg recently resigned the position, good luck Greg. Kelly will report to Bernie (WA4MOK) and he will be heavily involved in the Western Branch with the Skywarn activities..
Paul - KD4OZI |
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TARHEEL NET WEB PAGE Tarheel Net Manager Mark Cantrell, KD4IMA, and our web manager Susan Langley-Jone, WA4AKB have created a new web page for the Tarheel Emergency Net. The page has important information about our state ARES net, which is held nightly at 7:30pm local time on 3.923MHz. Check-ins are always welcome and Mark is also looking for help from folks willing to help as a regular or backup net control operator. Contact Mark at kd4ima@arrl.net.
KB4C AWARD NOMINATIONS SOUGHT - Tommy Queen, K4BNP, Area 14 DEC We are seeking nominations for the 2009 KB4C Award. The award is named in honor of Miriam Smith, KB4C, who became a silent key in July 1995. Miriam was well known in western North Carolina for her strong commitment to emergency and public service communications. She held an extra class license, received the A-1 Operators Award and was ARES Emergency Coordinator/RACES Radio officer for Buncombe County in the 1970's. Miriam was responsible for the earliest draft of the Buncombe County Emergency Response Plan. She was someone willing to do whatever was asked to help our community. The award will be selected from nominations submitted from anyone in Areas 14 and 15 (the western North Carolina counties, old area F). The selection will be named by a panel appointed by the area 14 DEC. The criteria for this recognition include active, licensed radio amateurs within area 14 or 15 who have demonstrated a long term commitment to emergency and public service communications through ARES/RACES. The recipient does not have to belong to any specific group. They must simply demonstrate an active commitment to the job we are asked to do. The award will be presented at the WCARS Hamfest on July 25th, 2009. Please submit your nominations for this award in writing to k4bnp@aol.com. Nominations must be received no later than July 1, 2009.
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| The Albemarle 444.900 (444.900 + Tone
110.9) repeater went on the air around lunch time today and is
on the link system now. Initial testing shows good portable
coverage along most of Hwy 24/27 between Mint Hill and Albemarle
and along Hwy 73 in Cabarrus and Stanly counties. Portable
coverage is excellent
throughout the city limits of Albemarle.
Mobile coverage looks good south to Wadesboro and west into
Mecklenburg County as well. We've also had a few portable check-in's
from the Richfield area as well. Posted by KD4ADL on Tuesday 28 April 2009 - 23:32:08 | Read/Post Comment: 0 | Thanks to Jeff (KJ4GZE) for making us aware of this on the Friday Tech net. |
| Thanks to 12 club members and their 13 quests for a great
social last Thursday. Hope everyone enjoyed the meal and time as
much and I did. I thought the room
was
much better than before when we ate in the open area. Paul will be moving the van to his QTH in May for a clean-up fix-up session. Be ready to help on this club project. The May meeting will be in Locust on May 28th. Check out the club web site for more info. Lane reminded us of the upcoming Field Day and will need your support for this event. No one has signed up for Net Control for the Tech Net during May so if you're around Fridays at 9 PM volunteer to call the net. Thanks to Don, AE4AH, for coordinating with Blue Bay for the room. 73 Carl W4EAT Members attending: KD4OZI, KF4HOP, WA4CFQ, W4KMA, WB5TSN, KJ4JWU, KS4PG, KJ4GZE, W4EAT, KC4TDC, KA4KTU & AE4AH |
| Who I saw at the Hamfest |
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A quick wrap-up of the XTERRA Uwharrie Run Sunday (May 3rd.) It was a good event as well as an easy one for our group. It was nice to visit those around us. Taking the runner / Bikers number was an easy task for all of us. Montgomery County and Stanly County Amateur radio groups were provided, I must say a great lunch much thanks to David's wife. The lunch kept our teams busy for a while. Thanks to David (KG4ZJR) for setting this up my hat is off to him for him for his efforts and involvements in this Xterra (yearly) event. Hope to see you next year. I show 51 runners logged on number 4 and 5 Check points and another 62 runners of the long race type at Check point 5.
Check Point 4: Carl (W4EAT) and William (KI4JDA) Check Point (Chicky) 5: Ed (W4KMA), Larry (KF4HOP) and Paul (KD4OZI)
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We still need at least two more of our Stanly County Folks to fill the last team. Team One: Carl (W4EAT) and William (KI4JDA) Team Two: Larry (KF4HOP) and Paul (KD4OZI) Team Three: Need two more Volunteers
Now in its
THIRD Year!
XTERRA
Uwharrie
takes place in
the beautiful We, K4OGB (ARES/Club) have been ask to man 3 communications station during this event. Stations 2, 4 and station 5. Montgomery Count will provide communication for the other as well as the base station. We would like to see two operators at each station. We participated last year and had a good time at this event. Please read David's (KG4ZJR) information below. Detail's open information here..... |
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Speaking of the
Charlotte/Concord Hamfest. Where are the K4OGB
tables located: Well, we Paul - KD4OZI |
| The 18th Annual
Uwharrie Mountain Run
– Saturday,
February 7, 2009
Congratulations finishers! The 2009 Uwharrie Mountain Run was a spectacular day thanks to the efforts of our amazing volunteers, the service of the HAM radio operators of Moore, Montgomery, and Stanly counties, the cooperation of the US Forest Service, the great spirit of trail running, and the blessing of Mother Nature. Thanks for your support over our 7-year reign as race directors – with new organizers coming in next year, we hope to be running with you on the trails! 18th Annual Uwharrie Mountain Run – Saturday, February 7, 2009Thanks to William - KI44JDA for heading this up. 2/18/09 |
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